The Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection (MYSTIC) Program was a global, longitudinal antimicrobial resistance surveillance network of more than 100 medical centers worldwide monitoring the susceptibility of meropenem and selected other broad-spectrum comparator agents. In 1999, and from 2000 through 2008, a total of 10 or 15 United States (USA) medical centers each forwar...

Parvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge English language and education at American school for girls as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to appreciation modern ideas, including women’s rights. Unlike some contemporaries early twentieth century who tried revolutio...

Hallucinatory inspiration Visual migrainous hallucinations have provided inspiration for others. Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is known to have suffered from migraine and is thought to have used his migrainous disturbances of body image as inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'0 Atkinson and Appenzeller described a patient who had migraine who painted her complex v...

Introduction Margery Kempe of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, had a colourful life. During her lifetime, which covered the last decades of the 14 century and the first decades of the 15, she bore fourteen children, suffered bouts of ill health, and travelled to all the most important pilgrim shrines in Medieval Christendom. Driven by faith and an unswerving devotion to God, she covered thousands of miles ...

The MYSTIC three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model has been extended to simulate solar and thermal irradiances with a rigorous consideration of topography. Forward as well as backward Monte Carlo simulations are possible for arbitrarily oriented surfaces and we demonstrate that the backward Monte Carlo technique is superior to the forward method for applications involving topogra...